Re: Gzip for AmigaDOS

[Kolbj|rn Barmen <kolla%nvg.unit.no@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, She stares at the screen at the little words in green 
wrote:

> >No.. hm.. perhaps it would actually be smart to first rename .tgz file to
> >tar.gz, since gzip will try to remove the .gz extension from the file.
> 
> That's what I have been doing....;-)

Oh.. OK :)

> >They shouldnt.
> 
> Well the AmigaDOS version gives a slightly longer filesize on the one file I 
> tested.
> It's only a couple of bytes difference, but I would have thought it would be 
> the same.
> I had a ".gz" file which I created using the i386 Linux version of Gzip, 
> which I decompressed and then recompressed using the AmigaDOS version of 
> gzip. The file compressed under AmigaDOS was larger!

Ah.. well, the compression rate depends on what version of gzip you are
running. The _uncompressed_ files should be the same size everywhere.

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